Up the Junction
(1968)

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Synopsis

Eighteen year-old Polly decides to turn her back on her wealthy background in Chelsea and undertake a more 'down to earth' lifestyle. She moves to Battersea and gets a job in a sweet factory where she is initiated into a way of life she had previously been sheltered from. She later meets Peter, a nineteen year old second-hand furniture assistant, who aspires to be part of the world she has just left. The film centres on the relationship between two young people with conflicting ambitions.